Ozone-generator.



A. L. VAN PATTEN.

OZONE GENERATOR.

APYPLIOATION FILED AUG. 21, 1912.

1,060,651. Patented May 6,1913.

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@v1/incubo@ ,ANDREW L. 'VAN PATTEN, 0F LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

OZONE-GENERATOR.

" Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 6, 1913.

Application filed August 21, 1912. Serial No. 716,188.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREw I). VAN PAT;

TEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in thecounty` of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Ozone-Generato-rs; and I do herebydeclarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as. will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to means for proT4 ducing and medicating ozonegas, andA has for its object a simple apparatus which' can be used by apatient to administer the mediratus for generating and medicating ozonegas in side elevation'partly in section.

Reference being had to the drawing and the designating charactersthereon, A indicates an electrical motor suitably positioned, B a diskor pulley connected by a belt C to the pulley D on the shaft of themotor.

W E is a crank on the supporting shaft of vthepulley and is connected tothe piston rod F of a piston G inthe pump H, which is supported in abase I, surrounded by an insulator J and oscillates on a trunnion K.

F indicates an air induction port or pas-Y sage in the vouter' end ofthe pump cylinder, and G is a check valve in the piston2 open- .ingdownwardly when any suction is produced by the up or outstroke of thepiston. Within the ibase I is supported a flexible electrode W and tothe piston G is attached a like flexible electrode W, in alinement withthe former electrode, and each preferably provided with adjacent contactsurfaces or points, as shown.

L is an extension on the base I in whose passage is a check valve M' ofsufficient weight to insure compression of the air and to prevent theair returning to the pump, and N is a tube for connecting the pump witha receptacle O, andextends through a rubber stopper P in .the neckQ ofthe botwire.

tle. A similar tube N extends through a like rubber stopper P in theneck Q.

R is a double tapered tubular stopper' entering the neck Q of thereceptacle O and the neck R, and through which passes a tube S,projecting into the medicated solution in the receptacle T and extendingdown into the receptacle O, and is filled with absorbent threads orsponge U, U, which conducts the solution into the gas in the receptacleO, by percolation or gravity and in finely divided particles. Thethreads U, U' may be adjusted in the tube S to ex ose more or lessthereof in the receptacle to vary the degree of medication of the gas.

R is a stop cock through which the receptacle T is supplied with themedicine desired tol be administer-.ed and is indicated by V. The cock Ralso regulates the discharge of the medicated solu'tion to thereceptacle O, by admitting more or less air to the receptacle T.

The line wires supplying current to the motor are so indicated and oneof said wires is connected to a make and break induction or resistancecoil X which supplies a high tension spark to the electrodes lV, IV whenthey are separated after making electrical contact with each other, theintensity of which is regulated by theswitch Y by introducing or cuttingout one or more coils of The switeh'lY controls current from the linewires. v

The operation of the device is obvious, air

ycompressed by the pump passes into the receptacle O and surrounds theabsorbent material U which issaturated with the medicine contained-inthe receptacle T. At the same time the electrical current is trying topass through wire 9 around coil X through a plurality of wire windings1, 2, 3, 4, to contacts 5, 6, 7 or 8, through wire lOto the insulatedbase` I, to electrode W, to electrode W, then through the barrel of thepump to wire' l1 and out to line. The passage of current actually occurswhen the electrodes are in contactas shown, but as the piston rises theelectrodes separate and a high tension spark is produced at the contactpoints, which acting upon the surroundlng air in the base below thepiston Aforms ozone gas asis well understood. The

next stroke of the piston forces the airand ozone finto' the receptacleO, to be medicated out deterioration of the medicine as occursv withbottles having tubes extending into the solution. l j

By the construction shown, a chamber is formed in the base I beyond thepiston when it reaches the limit of its outstroke and in this chamberthe ozone gas is formed and is forced into the receptacle O Where it ismedicated.-

The subject matter contained in canceled claims 14, l5 and 16, iscontained in a divisional application, led December 23, 1912, Serial No.738,223. l

Having thus fully described my invention, what I cl-aimv is l. In anozone-generator, an airpump, opposing electrodes within the pump chamberland means for producing high tension jparks between said electrodes Iinsaid chamer. v

2. lInan ozone-generator, an air pump, a fixed and a movable electrodein the pump chamber, and means for l producing high tensionsparksbetween said electrodes i said chamber.

3. In an ozone-generator, an air pump, a fixed electrode, a movableelectrode` secured to and reciprocated with the piston of the pump, andmeans for producing high tension sparks between saidv electrodes in achamber adjacent to said piston.

4. In an ozone generator, an air-pump, a valve controlling the eductionpassage of the pump to produce compression of.: air in the chamber ofthe pump and. means for producing sparks adjacent to the'pis'ton at oneend of its stroke. f

5. In an ozone-generator, an air pump, a

valve controlling the eduction passage ofthe pump to produce compressionof air in the chamber of the pump, electrodes within the pump, and meansfor producing sparks between said electrodes in the pump.

6. I n an ozone-generator, an air-pump, a valve controlling the eductionpassage of the pump to produce compression of air in the chamber of thepump, a xed and a movable electrode in the pump', and means forproducing sparks between said electrodes in the pump. y

7 In an ozone-generator, an air pump provided with an induction valve, aplston, a valve controlling the eduction passage of the pump to producecompression of air in the pump, a fixed electrode, a movableelectherethrough, a valve` controlling sald passage, an air receivingchamber, a compres-l sion chamber, a valve in the eduction passage, andmeans for producing sparks at one end of the cylinder.

9. In an ozone-generator, an air' pump, al

base therefor supported on a trunnion, elec,- trical insulation betweenthe pumpand the base, a chamber formed in said base, a fixed electrodesecured to the base, a movable elec.

ltrode connected to the pump piston, and

means for producing high tension sparks.

10. In an ozone-generator, an air pump, a chamber at the end of thecompression stroke of the piston formed by 'thebaseof the pump and' thepiston, a fixed electrode and a movable electrode whose contact is madein said chamber, and means for producing high tension sparks in thechamber.'

11. In an ozone-generator, an air pump, a base' therefor, having acompressed air chamberV therein, a trunnion on which t-he pumposcillates, a fixed electrode supported on the bottom of said base, anelectrode connected to a movable member of the pump, and means forproducing high tension sparks.

12. In an ozone-generator, an air pump, a fixed and a movable electrodearranged in the dischargelend of the pump, an induction coil providedwith a plurality of wire windings, a contact for each winding and aswitch adapted to engage .the several contacts to produce high tensionsparks.

' In testimony whereof I affix my signature,

in presence of two Witnesses.`

' ANDREW L. VAN PATTEN.

